Yates,
Herbert J. Chief of Republic Studios at the time of Republic's Joan-vehicle
Johnny Guitar(1954). An active supporter of the film, he
was often called in to moderate on-set problems, including feuds between Joan
and co-starMercedes McCambridge, as well as approving the cost ($220,000) of
adding additional scenes for Joan's Vienna character. One complaint he had was
about director Nicholas Ray's initial stylistic use of black-and-white in the otherwise
color film: "I'm paying for color, and I don't see any flowers." (JC) Director Ray also claimed that Yates was a cheapskate, refusing
to pay for a big-name co-star such as Barbara Stanwyck orBette Davis (whom
he says both he and Joan wanted) for the Emma Small role eventually played by McCambridge.
(DF)

"Yes"
Face. It's essential to have one to avoid looking like a "prune-faced
schoolmarm," according to Joan's '71 bookMy Way of Life. Here's
how to get yours in two easy steps: (1) Open your mouth as wide as you
can and at the same time purse your lips as if you're trying to whistle. Hold
it for 10 seconds. (2) Put your thumb and forefinger inside your mouth and try
to push your fingers out--at the same time forcing your cheeks in. Hold for
another count of ten.

Yordan,
Philip. Broadway playwright who did the screenplay for Joan's Johnny
Guitar (1954).

Youmans,
Vincent. Author of the Broadway musical "Great Day," acquired
by MGM as a film vehicle for Joan. The film began shooting around September
1930, but after 8 weeks or so was shelved due to Joan's dissatisfaction with
her Southern dialect after viewing the rushes. (US)

Young,
Elizabeth. Actress and socialite married at one time to producerJoseph
Mankiewicz, with whom Joan was "madly in love" around the time that
he was producing Joan's '36 filmThe Gorgeous Hussy. Young reportedly
became hysterical when, at a dinner party at the couple's home, her husband
and Joan disappeared for a length of time. Apparently the two had gone to look
at Mankiewicz's and Young's new baby; Joan was overheard telling him that the
baby should have been hers. (EB)

Young,
Ernie. Chicago agent-producer mentioned to Joan by Katharine Emerine,
in whose operetta show Joan was dancing in Springfield, Missouri, in 1923.
When the show folded, Joan attempted to look up Emerine in Chicago. Told that
she was on tour, Joan remembered Ernie Young's name and desperately crashed
his office in the fall of 1923. After she "jumped on his [casting] couch"
(EB), he hired her to dance in strip joints, bars, and salesmen's conventions,
then sent her in 1924 to dance in the floor show at the Oriole Terrace in Detroit,
one of 32 other chorus girls. In April of '24, doing a gypsy number, she knocked
over a drink onto Broadway producer J.J. Shubert, who came backstage and offered
her a job in the production of "Innocent Eyes" in New York City. She
dumped Young and Detroit and left for NYC the next night. (CM)

Young,
Gig (11/4/13 - 10/19/78)

Actor portraying Joan-character Jenny Stewart's sybaritic lover in
1953'sTorch Song. According to EB,
she often invited him for drinks in her dressing room at the end of each day.
After running in to him in Palm Springs during the time of filming, she apparently
made a pass at him, which he said he refused. He later claimed Joan had
his scenes in Torch Song cut drastically because of his rebuff.
(Editor's note: Young's part was of extremely minor importance to the plot to begin with.)

Young
was married to actress Elizabeth Montgomery (his third wife) from
1956 to 1963. He killed his fifth wife and then himself in
1978.

Young,
Loretta. (1/6/13 - 8/12/00) U.S. actress with a long career in both movies
and TV ("The Loretta Young Show"), and one of Joan's earliest Hollywood rivals. The enmity apparently
started in 1926 when a teenaged Loretta tagged along with sisters Polly Ann
and Betty Jane to one of Joan's weekly "girlfriend luncheons" at Montmartre.
Loretta charmed everyone, to Joan's annoyance, and was thereafter banned from further lunches.
(As a result of being forced to stay at home, Loretta took a call meant for
sister Polly Ann and accepted her first movie role.)

Loretta further invoked Joan's
displeasure by having an affair with Joan's oft-time lover Clark Gable
during the filming of 1935's Call of the Wild and later bearing
his at-the-time-unacknowledged child. Young also had affairs with onetime
Joan-paramours Spencer Tracy, during the filming of A Man's Castle,
and producer Joseph Mankiewicz. And, to add insult to injury, she also
beat out Joan for the Best Actress Oscar for 1947, winning for The
Farmer's Daughter over Joan's Possessed. Young later
rejected
an offer to replace Joan in Hush, Hush, Sweet Charlotte.

Joan often joked about Young's devotion
to Catholicism: At a party once, a guest was about to sit down and Joan
grabbed him, saying "Can't sit there. Loretta Young just got up, and it
has the mark of the cross on the seat." (CM,
EB)

Young,
Victor. Wrote the score for Joan's 1954Johnny Guitar, including
the title song sung by Peggy Lee.

Young,
Waldemar. Writer of the scenario for Joan's 1927 Tod Browning-directed-and-written
silent film The Unknown.

Young
Woodley. Play at which Joan first met husband-to-be Doug Fairbanks, Jr.It opened October 27, 1927,
at the Vine Street Playhouse in Los Angeles. Joan, attending the play with mentor
Paul Bern, was first introduced to Doug backstage that evening, then later
that night sent him a congratulatory telegram on his performance. Mary Pickford
and husbandFairbanks,
Sr., also attended opening night. Sr. proclaimed Jr.
"a pretty good actor." (CM)